Are there any keyboards available with arrow keys ?
When editing files, it can be difficult to press at exactly the right point in the file to put the cursor.
Thanks !
Thumb Keyboard offers arrow keys.
In my opinion, it's THE best onscreen keyboard for the Nook anyway.
ADude said:
Are there any keyboards available with arrow keys ?
When editing files, it can be difficult to press at exactly the right point in the file to put the cursor.
Thanks !
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Thumb Keyboard has arrow keys.
Swiftkey has arrow keys too.
Arbelzapf said:
Thumb Keyboard offers arrow keys.
In my opinion, it's THE best onscreen keyboard for the Nook anyway.
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What he said
I like Smart Keyboard. It has a free trial/nag version. Don't forget to install the dictionary for it too.
I've got ultra keyboard and love it. Its got arrow keys, copy paste keys and much more. I highly recommend it
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Keyboards seem to be like olives in terms of the superlatives of their names:
- Better
- Ultra
- Smart
- Swift
the only one bucking the trend is:
- Thumb
khaytsus said:
Swiftkey has arrow keys too.
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Ironically, to the best of my knowledge, the tablet version does not., except when not in split mode. My vote goes to thumb keyboard.
SlideIT Keyboard has arrow keys.
Swype (my personal favorite) has arrow keys... just swype from the Swype button to the Sym button and the editing keyboard with arrows, cut, paste, etc. comes up.
dwhisent said:
Swype (my personal favorite) has arrow keys... just swype from the Swype button to the Sym button and the editing keyboard with arrows, cut, paste, etc. comes up.
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I Agree, swype is the best.
dwhisent said:
Swype (my personal favorite) has arrow keys... just swype from the Swype button to the Sym button and the editing keyboard with arrows, cut, paste, etc. comes up.
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OMG, I have been so frustrated with Swype on the NC because I missed Ultra Keyboard's arrow keys. I had no idea that editing keyboard was there!
MedLine said:
SlideIT Keyboard has arrow keys.
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I didn't find it in mine. But I just bought Thumb and it's way better in landscape mode. The thumb thing is natural for holding the Nook. Maybe I'll use Slideit in portrait. By the way Thumbs is less than half the price.
Since nobody mentioned it yet, the Notion Ink keyboard (Available through this section) has a very traditional desktop keyboard layout, including arrow keys where you would expect them.
It's one of the, if not THE, best free keyboard available. And quite frankly, I think it beats Thumb Keyboard as well.
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Hey guys,
I'm wondering, when I make a typo on my X10, how do I fine-select the text? I can tap, but it usually places the cursor at the wrong place and since we don't have a trackball: how do we fine-select (as in move the cursor 1 place to the left or right).
I tried the volume keys, but it doesn't work.. is it even possible?
Thanks in advance!
same issue
i have the same issue. i can get it prty close within a few charioteers ill just erase up to the point and re type ><
depends on the keyboard ur using i suppose. i use the standard android keyboard b/c it has the left and right arrows in the corner making it easier to tap on the line of txt that needs editing and then moving the cursor to the correct position ...
that's weird im using the default keyboard and i have no such arrows
The other option is that you can tap and hold your finger to drag the cursor left or right along the text. With a little practice, you can make this work very efficiently.
cobra1122 said:
that's weird im using the default keyboard and i have no such arrows
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Try the app ' smart keyboard pro'
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If you have the htc ime keyboard, you can go into its settings and set the cursor to be moved by the volume keys. I did this and its very helpful.
DBSS said:
The other option is that you can tap and hold your finger to drag the cursor left or right along the text. With a little practice, you can make this work very efficiently.
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Thats odd, i cannot do that at all...
if using swype you can just drag the swype key onto the SYM key to bring up editing mode (they are both on the bottom left of the keyboard)
away said:
if using swype you can just drag the swype key onto the SYM key to bring up editing mode (they are both on the bottom left of the keyboard)
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Thanks for the great tip.
away said:
if using swype you can just drag the swype key onto the SYM key to bring up editing mode (they are both on the bottom left of the keyboard)
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OMFG - I've been using swype for ages and I did not know this.... it's damned brilliant.. thanks!
im_iceman said:
OMFG - I've been using swype for ages and I did not know this.... it's damned brilliant.. thanks!
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same here.. very good tip!! thanx!!
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If you have the htc ime keyboard, you can go into its settings and set the cursor to be moved by the volume keys. I did this and its very helpful.
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+1
The best keyboard so far! So many options...
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If you have the htc ime keyboard, you can go into its settings and set the cursor to be moved by the volume keys. I did this and its very helpful.
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I am obviously being particularly dim tonight cos I can't find this. Where is it!?!?!
To use volume keys to move your cursor with the htc keyboard do the following....
Settings > Locale & Text > HTC_IME settings > User Interface > Volume Keys and select "Move Cursor"
OMGosh I knew it would be so simple. Thank you, I thought I'd opened everything and looked. Oh well it had been a long day! And its sooo cool too. Cheers.
is there a way of modifying the keyboard layout to include arrow keys in it...
I miss arrow keys and ctrl key a lot.
please suggest ...
move over to swype.. you get arrow keys on there.
This is the one and only feature im missing from SE's 1.6 ROM, the arrows on the keyboard lol.
Why did they have to go and remove those
because now they have the scroll above the keyboard and you can move the sentence instead of moving the scroll!!!
im_iceman said:
move over to swype.. you get arrow keys on there.
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where are the arrow keys in swype ?
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i'm using htc ime by jonasl... (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=624416) there you can assign your volume keys to move the cursor and much much more.. i find it very comfortable
coolsid8 said:
where are the arrow keys in swype ?
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It's been awhile since I've used it but, if I remember correctly, you need to swipe from the swipe key to Sym key.
That works
however not the most elegant of solutions.
i found one more solution Thumb keyboard.
that also looks good.
GreatBigDog said:
It's been awhile since I've used it but, if I remember correctly, you need to swipe from the swipe key to Sym key.
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ARROW KEYS!!! in swype!!!!
http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/07/02/tip-how-to-get-arrowcursor-keys-on-the-swype-keyboard/
TRusselo said:
ARROW KEYS!!! in swype!!!!
http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/07/02/tip-how-to-get-arrowcursor-keys-on-the-swype-keyboard/
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I found a free solution i.e. full keyboard layout is good a lot of key combination which is generally required however it misses the autocorrection of standard keyboard.
can anyone suggest how to get the best of both.
I had used a free Gingerbread keyboard on my INC and X... with the Thunderbolt, and its stock keyboard having directional arrows (since the TB lacks the INC's optical joystick/ball), I was wondering if there is a free GB keyboard with directional arrows too?
Smart Keyboard Pro has gingerbread skin and an option to hit alt key and change to arrows. Best I've found so far.
i just fugured out by accident that the gingerbread keyboard does have arrows. Press and hold on the spacebar and slide up and you will see them appear. This is great now , i really wanted arrows, plus it moves the keys up a bit.
earthtodigi said:
i just fugured out by accident that the gingerbread keyboard does have arrows. Press and hold on the spacebar and slide up and you will see them appear. This is great now , i really wanted arrows, plus it moves the keys up a bit.
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OMFG! THANK-YOU SO MUCH! The lack of the arrows has been killing me!
Downloaded a terminal app an wondering on the samsung keyboard where the escape key is and the arrow keys? Thanks
there is no escape key, thats a tablet running android, not windows!!!!
arrow keys are on the right side...!
you can use "hackers keyboard" available from the play store. It comes with a lot of special buttons, inlcuding - but not limited to - the escape and arrow keys
Localhorst86 said:
you can use "hackers keyboard" available from the play store. It comes with a lot of special buttons, inlcuding - but not limited to - the escape and arrow keys
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+1 on this. Hacker's keyboard is great.
Localhorst86 said:
you can use "hackers keyboard" available from the play store. It comes with a lot of special buttons, inlcuding - but not limited to - the escape and arrow keys
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Fantastic - this is just what I was looking for too - plus, it support many languages, which is always a bonus.
+1 for Hacker's Keyboard too.
I was just wondering if it would be possible to add a smiley's button to a sense keyboard instead of having to hit menu and insert smiley every time. On all of the aosp roms the smiley button is where the enter key would be but if you add that keyboard to a sense rom it doesn't show up so if anyone knows how to modify the sense keyboard to have that button that would be awesome!
other keyboards with smiley
I have tried every keyboard looking for one that combines all the greatest features including a working smiley key. Swiftkey seems to be the over all best. But it has some serious issues with lag on ICS, so had to give it up, even though it's prediction, including adding missing space, is way above everyone else, sometimes it would not do predictions within apps though. Touchpal has nice prediction and a good enter key that brings up smiley with a long press as well as a great feature of getting the alt key meaning by swiping the key up or down. Smart keyboard has good text prediction, long press to get smiley on enter key. My favorite right now is Perfect Keyboard. Perfect keyboard lets me tailor the long press duration, it has great prediction, and like swiftkey will fill in missing space bar presses. With perfect keyboard a long press get the smileys, plus Perfect keyboard does even a better job than the others of continuing to do predictions even within apps like shopping lists, google play, etc.
Using this on my Rez:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1844512
Works well. I loved the HTC_Mod before as well, and somebody ported it over to XHDPI devices; he's still trying to get it working on JB, but it works fine on ICS.